Big Government is the sacred enemy that animates the Tea Party uniting it in opposition to death panels, socialists, gun-control advocates, unions, Obamacare, deficits, and so on…
The Tea Party-inspired constitutional recitation of January 6 immediately ran into the problems any fundamentalism has with sacred scripture: what do you do with the parts that speak to the original intent of an entirely different era—stoning adulterers, casting down fire on one’s enemies, selling all one’s possessions and giving to the poor, requiring the return of runaway slaves, and counting slaves as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation?